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"Ballroom Stories" è il terzo album di Klaus Waldeck, producer austriaco che propone un elegante downtempo contagiato da dub, jazz e soprattutto swing.
Riadattando gli anni venti in veste attuale, Waldeck usufruisce di una vasta gamma di strumenti (trombone e piano in primis) per arrivare ad una sorta di nu-swing che si aggrappa a melodie gentili e sofisticate ("Make My Day" gran vocal-gran video", "Addicted" squisitamente parigina), ed esercizi retrò da film in bianco e nero ("Memories" timide melodie dubbate, "Jerry Weintraub" scherzosa e gioviale, "Dope Noir" ariosa ballad che riprende i toni spirituali di Psalm). "Midsummer Night Blues" tra ritmi house terzinati e contrappunti jazzy richiama ad una Gloomy Sunday in forma meno depressa, mentre sono sempre ottimi e più che mai adatti al contesto i vocals della coautrice Zeebee.
Assolutamente nulla di pretenzioso, disco gradevolissimo, brevissimo e disimpegnato, ideale break tra un mattone di Jon Hassell e un Davis formato sciamano elettrico. [3.5]
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01 Make My Day (02:49)
Make My Day
You know how to turn me on
Oh you got it going on
Baby you can make my day
(one, two)
You know how to turn me on
Oh you got it going on
Baby you can make my day
Come on get down with me
We can dance the night away
Baby you can make my day
Nothing’s going to stop us now
We can get down anyhow
Come on baby make my day
Come on come on
Turn the radio on
Turn it up the neighbour’s gone
You can make my day
You know how to turn me on
Oh you got it going on
Baby you can make my day
Come on come on
Turn the radio on
Turn it up the neighbour’s gone
You can make my day
You can make my day
03 Memories (03:53)
All those souvenirs in my memories
got me going down in strike
all those souvenirs in my memories
got me ruining my soul
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all those souvenirs in my memories
got me going down in strike
all those souvenirs in my memories
got me ruining my soul
but if you tell me what i should be afraid
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but if you tell me what i should be afraid
and maybe this sound is increasingly high
all those souvenirs in my memories
got me ruining my soul
but if you tell me what i should be afraid
04 Addicted (03:56)
Any time I try to get through
Your phone is quiet and so are you
The consequence of mine denying (?)
Oh what I mean
We’ve been together so long
The story moved on but we did not
The love we felt
That rescues us sentiment
Of what I meant
Oh Baby come back to me
Please darling can’t you see
that I ‘m addicted to you, that I ‘m addicted to you
Oh Baby come back to me
Please darling can’t you see
that I ‘m addicted to you, that I ‘m addicted to you
We’ve been together so long
The story moved on but we did not
The love we felt
That rescues us sentiment
Of what I ment
Oh Baby come back to me
Please darling can’t you see
that I ‘m addicted to you, that I ‘m addicted to you
Oh Baby come back to me
Please darling can’t you see
that I ‘m addicted to you, that I ‘m addicted to you
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